This is the song they refer to and it emotionally resonates for the Germans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_QotuhPSk&pp=ygUMbG9yZWxlaSBzb25n
I suppose it beats The Horst Wessel Lied.
Or it did, once. Few people nowadays know it any more.
In Japan, however, it is still popular, as an example of German romantic poetry and music - thanks be to conductor Franz Eckert (1852-1916), who spent most of his career there.
The Loreley
by Heinrich Heine, translated by Mark Twain from his very amusing book „A tramp abroad“:
I cannot divine what it meaneth
This haunting nameless pain:
A tale of the bygone ages
Keeps brooding through my brain.
The faint air cools in the gloaming,
And peaceful flows the Rhine,
The thirsty summits are drinking
The sunet’s flooding wine.
The loviest maiden is sitting
High thrones in yon blue air,
Her golden jewels are shining
She combs her golden hair;
She combs with a comb that is golden,
And sings a weird refrain;
That steeps in a deadly enchantment
The listener’s ravished brain.
The doomed in his drifting shallop
Is tranced with the sad sweet tone,
He sees not the yawning breakers.
He sees but the maid alone.
The pitiless billows engulf him!
So perish sailor and bark,
And this, with her baleful singing,
Is the Loreley’s gruesome work.
Heine was a mediocre poet at best, in spite of all his fame, and the Lorelei is the only poem I know where the translation is better than the original - may Catherine Winkworth and Charles Sanford Terry forgive me😂
Interesting Loralei folk song, you posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_QotuhPSk
It should inspire conservative Germans. not worry them.Loralei sings for the left.